Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-01-23

~ know more. As to the letter and PACK
ape we will keep that for further con-
s;deration. II cannot be OF much llhpoi
tsnce or they would have spoken OF IL pe.
fore. II is probably some tritiing present IN
n return for your hospitality. L snoui'
nse no indecorous haste in having IL open
ed" al
The two women kissed Mrs. Scott WIZ
a feeling of relief, and fell back INTO .Ht
m%opotonv of their household duties. l'l,
to be feared, however, that the absence o.
their outlawcd guests was nearly rs danger,
ous as their presence in the opportunity II
| afforded for uninterrupted and imaginative
reflection. Both Kate and josephine wer'
at first shocked and wounded by the dis
covery of the real character OF the TWO me.
with whom they had associated so La
miliarly, but it was no d~ispaTagement u
their sense of propriety to say the shocs
| did not last long, and was accompanied
with the facination of danger. h wa
succeeded by a consciousness ofthe delicate
f~lattery implied in their indirect innuehc'
over the men who had undoubtedly rlsHe.
their lives for the sake of remaining VIII
them. The best woman is not above oelns
touched by the effect of her power over tn
worst man, and Kate ut first allowed her
self TO think of Falkner in that light. Bu'
IL in her later reflections he suffered as .
heroic experience to be forgotten, hegalnec
something as an actual nan to be reinem
bered. Now that the proposed rides iron
This friends house" were OF the Illusion
would he ever dare to visit them again
Would she dare to see him? She held he
breath with a sudden pain OF parting tina
was new to her, she tried to think oil some
thing else, to pick up the scattered thread:
of her life before that eventful day. Bu'
in vain; that one week had filled the place
with implacable memories, or more ter
rible. rs il seemed to her and her sister
they had both lost their feeble, alien hoic
upon Eagles Court in the sudden presenc,
of the real genii of these solitudeS, an'
henceforth they alone would be stranger
there. They scarcely dared 10 confess II u
each other, but this return to the dazZlln!
sunlight and cloudleSs skies of the past ap
peared to them to be II unreal eX
perience: they had never known the tru'
wild flavor of their home except IN tina
week of delicious isolation. Wlthou
breathing it aloud, they longed for som'
vague denouement to this experience tina
should take them from Eagles Court for
ever. 49,
1t was noon the next day when the lit
tie household beheld the last shred ofthel
illusion vanished like the melting snow il
the strong sunlight Of John Hale's return
He was accompanied by Col. Clinch an
Rawlins. two strangers to the women
Was it fancy or the avenging spirit OF thei
absent companions? But h, too, looked
stranger, and rs the little cavalcade wount
it's way up the slope he appeared to sit hi
horse and wear his hat with n certain
slouch and absence of his usual restrain
that strangely shocked them. Even the
old notwithstanding, half-punctillout
gallantry of his greeting of his wife ant
family waS changed, rs he introduced In
companions with a mingling of familiarity
and shyneSS hat was new To him. Die
Mrs. Hale regret it, or fell a sense of relic
in absence ofhis usual s%eiGnorial tOrmality'
She only knew that she Vas grateful loj
the presence OF the strangers, which for tn
moment postponed 4 matrimonial conf
dence from which she shrunk.
proud 10 know YOU" said Col. Clinch
with a sudden outbreak of the antique
gallantry of some remote HuguenOt ances
tor. "Mv friend, Judge Hale, must he
regular Roman citizen to leave such
family and such a house at the call o
public duty. Eh, Rawlins?'